List of racism-related films

This is a list of films that deal with the topic of race or racism. The film title is followed by country and year of release:

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12 Years a Slave (US/UK, 2013)
30:e november (Sweden, 1995)
42 (US, 2013)
500 Years Later (US, 2005)
A Dry White Season (US, 1989)
A Family Thing (US, 1996)
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion (US, 1982)
A Lesson Before Dying (US, 1999)
A Patch of Blue (US, 1965)
A Soldier's Story (US, 1984)
A Storm in Summer (US, 2000)
A United Kingdom (UK, 2016)
All The Way (US, 2016)
Amazing Grace (UK, 2006)
American History X (US, 1998)
American Son (US, 2019)
Americanese (US, 2006)
Amistad (US, 1997)
An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win (US, 2016)
(US 1985)
Animal (US, 2005)
Apt Pupil (film) (US, 1998)
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker (US, 1994)
Bamboozled (US, 2000)
The Bank Job (US, 2008)
Barry (US, 2016)
Beautiful Me(s): Finding Our Revolutionary Selves (US, 2008)
The Believer (US, 2001)
Belle (UK, 2013)
Beloved (US, 1998)
Bessie (US, 2015)
The Best of Enemies (US, 2019)
Betrayed (US, 1988)
Betty and Coretta (US, 2013)
Bird (US, 1988)
The Birth of a Nation (US, 1915)
The Birth of a Nation (US, 2016)
Black Like Me (film) (US, 1964)
Black Orpheus (Brazil, 1959)
BLACKkKLANSMAN (US, 2018)
Blazing Saddles (US, 1974)
The Blind Side (US, 2009)
Blood Done Sign My Name (US, 2010)
Bojangles (US, 2001)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (US, 2006)
Boycott (US, 2001)
The Boys from Brazil (US, 1978)
Brian's Song (US, 1971)
Bridge to the Sun (US, 1961)
Brocket 99 - Rockin' the Country (Canada, 2006)
Broken Blossoms (US, 1919)
A Bronx Tale (US, 1993)
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (US, 2002)
Brother Future (US, 1991)
Buck and the Preacher (US, 1972)
Brother John (US, 1971)
Buffalo Soldiers (TV) (US, 1997)
Burden (US, 2018)
The Butler (US, 2013)
Canal Street (US, 2019)
Cedar Boys (Australia, 2009)
The Chamber (US, 1996)
Circus (USSR, 1936)
Class of '61 (US, 1993)
Cloud Atlas (US, 2012)
The Color of Friendship (US, 2000)
The Color Purple (US, 1985)
Colors (US, 1988)
The Combination (Australia, 2009)
Come See the Paradise (US, 1990)
Conrack (US, 1974)^[1]
Continuous Journey (Canada, 2004)
Corrina, Corrina (US, 1994)
The Cotton Club (US, 1984)
Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity (US, 2012)
Crash (US, 2004)
Crazy in Alabama (US, 1999)
The Crimson Kimono (US 1959)
Crisis At Central High (US, 1981)
Crossfire (US, 1947)
Cry, the Beloved Country (UK, 1951)
Cry, the Beloved Country (South Africa/US, 1995)
Cry Freedom (UK, 1987)
A Day Without a Mexican (US, 2004)
(US, 2003)
Deadly Hero (US, 1976)
Death By Hanging (Japan, 1968)
The Defiant Ones (US, 1958)
Detroit (US, 2017)
Django Unchained (US, 2012)
Do the Right Thing (US, 1989)
Driving Miss Daisy (US, 1989)
East Is East (UK, 1999)
The Ernest Green Story (US, 1993)
(UK, 1934)
The Eternal Jew (Germany, 1940)
The Express: The Ernie Davis Story (US, 2008)
Far from Heaven (US, 2002)
(US, 2001)
Finding Forrester (US, 2000)
Flags of Our Fathers (US, 2006)
Flame in the Streets (UK, 1961)
Focus (US, 2001)
For Colored Girls (US, 2010)
For Queen and Country (UK, 1988)
Frankie and Alice (US, 2010)
Free State of Jones (US, 2016)
Freedom (US, 2014)
Freedom Song (US, 2000)
Freedom Writers (US, 2007)
Fried Green Tomatoes (US, 1991)
Fruitvale Station (US, 2013)
(US, 2014)
Gangsta's Paradise (US, 1995)
Gentleman's Agreement (US, 1947)
Get On The Bus (US, 1996)
Get On Up (US, 2014)
Get Out (US, 2017)
Ghosts of Mississippi (US, 1996)
Giant (US, 1956)
Glory (US, 1989)
Glory Road (US, 2006)
Gone With the Wind (US, 1939)
Gospel Hill (US, 2008)
Gran Torino (US, 2009)
Greased Lightning (US, 1977)
The Great Debaters (US, 2007)
The Great White Hope (US, 1970)
Green Book (US, 2018)
The Green Mile (US, 1999)
Guess Who (US, 2005)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (US, 1967)
Hairspray (US, 1988)
Hairspray (US, 2007)
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (US, 2004)
Harriet (US, 2019)
Hart's War (US, 2002)
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (US, 1999)
The Help (US, 2011)
Hidden Figures (US, 2017)
Hidden Colors (US, 2011)
(US, 1995)
Higher Learning (US, 1995)
Hitler's Children (US, 1943)
Home of the Brave (US, 1949)
Hotel Rwanda (US, 2004)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (US, 1996)
The Hurricane (US, 1999)
I Am Not Your Negro (US, 2016)
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (US, 1979)
If Beale Street Could Talk (US, 2018)
Imitation of Life (US, 1959 film)
In the Heat of the Night (US, 1967)
Inappropriate Comedy (US, 2013)
Inglorious Bastards (US, 2009)
Intolerance (US, 1916)
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (US, 1999)
Invictus (2009)
The Intruder (US, 1962)
The Jackie Robinson Story (US, 1950)
(US, 1995)
Jojo Rabbit (US, 2019)
The Journey of August King (US, 1995)
Jud Süß (Germany, 1940)
Jungle Fever (US, 1991)
Just Mercy (US, 2019)
Kalushi (South Africa, 2016)
(US, 2002)
Khaled (Canada, 2001)
Kiku to Isamu (Japan, 1959)
(US, 2018)
Kings (US, 2017)
Little Angel (Sri Lanka, 2002)
La vita è bella (Italy, 1997)
Lady Sings the Blues (US, 1972)
Lakeview Terrace (US, 2008)
LBJ (US, 2016)
The Landlord (US, 1970)
The Last Victims (South Africa, 2019)
Lean on Me (US, 1989)
(US, 2003)
Lincoln (US, 2012)
The Long Walk Home (US, 1990)
Long Walk to Freedom (US, 2013)
Losing Isaiah (US, 1995)
Lost Boundaries (US, 1949)
Love Field (US, 1992)
Loving (US, 2016)
Malcolm X (US,1992)
The Man Who Knew Infinity (US, 2015)
Manderlay (US, 2005)
Marshall (US, 2017)
Men of Honor (US, 2000)
(US, 1993)
Milk (US, 2006)
(US, 2006)
Miss Evers' Boys (US, 1997)
Mississippi Burning (US, 1988)
Mississippi Masala (US, 1991)
(US, 1990)
Monster's Ball (US, 2001)
Mr. and Mrs. Loving (US, 1996)
Mudbound (US, 2017)
My Past Is My Own (US, 1989)
Native Son (US, 1986)
Nattbuss 807 (Sweden, 1997)
Night Catches Us (US, 2010)
Nightjohn (US, 1996)
No Way Out (US, 1950)
The North Star (US, 2016)
Nothing But a Man (US, 1964)
Once Upon a Time in China (HK, 1992)
One Potato, Two Potato (US, 1964)
The Paperboy (US, 2012)
Paris Blues (US, 1961)
Pariyerum Perumal (India, 2018)
A Patch of Blue (US, 1965)
The Pianist (US, 2002)
Pink Floyd – The Wall (US, 1982)
Pinky (US, 1949)
Places in the Heart (US, 1984)
Planes: Fire and Rescue (US, 2014)
Planet of the Apes (US, 1968)
Pocahontas (US, 1995)
The Power of One (US 1992)
Pressure Point (US, 1962)
Pride (US, 2007)
Q & A (US, 1990)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Australia, 2002)
Race (US, 2016)
Ragtime (US, 1981)
A Raisin in the Sun (US, 1961)
A Raisin in the Sun (US, 2008)
Ray (US, 2004)
Remember the Titans (US, 2000)
Reel Bad Arabs (US, 2006) A documentary film based on the book of the same name by Jack Shaheen.
Reel Injun (US, 2009)
Romper Stomper (Australia, 1992)
Rosewood (US, 1997)
Ruby Bridges (TV) (US, 1998)
(US, 2001)
Salt of the Earth (US, 1954) One of the first films to show protagonists overcome racial divisions to achieve success.
Sankofa (US, 1993)
Sarafina (US, 1992)
Saroja (Sri Lanka, 2000)
Savannah (US, 2013)
Schindler's List (US, 1993)
School Daze (US, 1988)
School Ties (US, 1992)
The Great Debaters (US, 2007)
The Secret Life of Bees (US, 2008)
(US, 1999)
Selma (US, 2014)
Selma, Lord, Selma (US, 1999)
Sergeant Rutledge (US, 1960)
Shadows (US, 1959)
Shaft (US, 1971, with sequels in 1972 and 1973)
The Shawshank Redemption (US, 1994)
Shock Corridor (US, 1959)
Show Boat
Sins of the Father (US, 2002)
Skin (Africa, 2008)
Slam (Australia, 2018)
Snow Falling On Cedars (US, 1999)
A Soldier's Story (US, 1984)
Something New (US, 2006)
Something The Lord Made (US, 2004)
Soul Man (US, 1986)
(Us, 1996)
Sounder (US, 1972)
Speak Up! It's So Dark (Sweden, 1993)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (US, 1973)
Stand and Deliver (US, 1988)
Steel Toes (Canada, 2006)
Straight Outta Compton (US, 2015)
Story of a Three Day Pass (US, 1968)
Talk To Me (US, 2007)
Taxi (Spain, 1996) (not to be confused with the French film of the same name)
The Banker (US, 2020)
The Forgiven (US, 2017)
The Hate U Give (US, 2018)
The Retrieval (US, 2013)
The Rosa Parks Story (US, 2002)
This Is England (UK, 2007)
...tick...tick...tick... (US, 1970)
A Time To Kill (US, 1996)
To Kill a Mockingbird (US, 1962)
To Sir, with Love (US, 1967)
Triumph of the Will (Germany, 1935)
Tula: The Revolt (US, 2013)
The Tuskegee Airmen (TV) (US, 1995)
Toussaint Louverture (France, 2012)
Two Family House (US, 2000)
(Canada, 2007)^[2]
Utopia (2013 film) (Australia, 2013)
Watermelon Man (US, 1970)
The Walking Dead (US, 1995)
The Way Home: Women Talk about Race in America (US, 1998)
West Side Story (US, 1961)
(US, 2015)
White Chicks (US, 2014)
White Dog (US, 1982)
White Man's Burden (US, 1995)
White Men Can't Jump" (US, 1992)
Whitewash (TV) (US, 1994)
Winnie Mandela (US, 2011)
Zebrahead (US, 1992)
Zootopia (US, 2016)